Re: more than one default gw route

[Roy Marples <roy marples name>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:47 +0200, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> > So do you confirm that having more that one default route to gateway
> > (at the same time) will break things down?
>
> Oh, it won't break things down at all.  But the first default route in
> the routing table will be the one that gets used for new outgoing
> connections.  So it's pretty pointless to have more than one at a time.
> Only one can truly the be the "default" route, and if you have more than
> one, the lower-priority ones are more or less ignored by the kernel
> entirely.

Just to clarify a bit futher :)
The route command will show the metric for each installed route.
For duplicate routes, the one with the lowest metric is used.

Thanks

Roy